Articles by Jacob Traynor

  • Law aims at hoon spectators

    A Colac district State MP is proposing a law that would make it illegal to attend a hoon event, in a bid to deprive rubber rippers of an audience and stamp out dangerous driving.

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  • Call for harsher crackdown on trash tossers

    Waste crime campaigners are calling for the State Government and the EPA to back local governments like Colac Otway Shire Council in the battle against illegal dumping.

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  • Watch out for harvesters

    Corangamite district farm contractors are fed up with impatient and cranky drivers, police say.

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  • Truck driver dies in crash

    Police are investigating the circumstances around a fatal crash yesterday at Wongarra, north-east of Apollo Bay.

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  • Families preparing cool Christmas displays

    Colac Christmas lighters are readying to wow crowds with their dazzling displays, in what organisers tip could be the city’s biggest year ever.

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  • Mick’s epic trip for youth

    A youth worker has completed a 50-kilometre journey through the Otways to help more vulnerable young people celebrate Christmas.

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  • Burnoff blitz

    Tens of thousands of hectares of Otways bushland will go to fire under a major three-year burnoff plan.

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  • Powercor pleads guilty to fire charge, five charges dropped

    A power distributor has pleaded guilty to a charge relating to the devastating 2018 Terang fire, while an energy network regulator has dropped five charges relating to a separate blaze.

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